I love WLW. I use it every day for blogging. It’s great that it supports blog themes and autosaves and everything.
But I think it’s retarded. I have huge problems with the image handling system. There are a couple situations that are happening:
- the system transforms my jpegs into png. there is no such option in the settings and the images are positively jpegs.
- even though i specify “link to source picture”, the system shrinks the source picture. no such settings exists, of course.
- i am importing the settings to fix the problems above. i close wlw and when i start it again the problems 1 and 2 keep happening again.
WTF?!?!!?
retarded doesn’t mean stupid.
Windows Live Writer is a fantastic offline blogging tool with a WYSIWYG editor. It interfaces with just about any blog service [Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress, etc.] If you’re a blogger you’ll find this tool incredibly helpful- and it’s refreshingly free from Microsoft.
But your right, it’s handling of images is really bad.
If you are having issues with pasting information from other applications, or just need a more robust option when pasting information, you should visit the Windows Live Writer plug-in gallery.
As a suggestion, you should try CLIPBOARD LIVE.
http://plugins.live.com/writer/detail/clipboard-live
This has some options for when you copy and paste information. Don’t forget to check the options for the plug-in. It’s very useful.
But there are others:
http://plugins.live.com/writer/category/formatting-clipboard?orderby=featured&page=1
I use it to paste my JPG images to Windows Live Writer.
Also, check out my post on Windows Live Writer image defaults.
Maybe these can help you…
http://lehsys.blogspot.com/2010/09/windows-live-writer-2011-setting.html
or
http://lehsys.blogspot.com/2010/09/windows-live-writer-2011-image.html
Niether will help setting a default image paste to JPG.
I hope this helps…
Until next time,
Larry Henry Jr.
thanx, i’ve read ur articles, they don’t help.